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Best well drillers in Clay County, Kansas

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 34 drilling companies with wells on record in Clay County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,008 logged wells in the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) WWC-5 water well records database (records as of 2026-09-22). Every number links back to the public record.

34companies on record
16active since 2022
1,008wells in county record
#CompanyIn Clay Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Flint Hills Drlg #914 70 70 531
2 Associated Drilling, Inc. 60 170 1,922
3 Associated Drilling, Inc. #990 29 29 479
4 Haldeman Well Drilling & Pump Service 25 114 1,195
5 Flint Hills Drilling 15 15 206
6 Mel's Pump & Plumbing, Inc. 13 53 72
7 Sargent Drlg #946 9 9 84
8 Blue Valley Drilling 8 29 1,448
9 Peterson Mcnett Drilling, Inc. 5 5 1,260
10 Associated Environmental, Inc. 1 39 472
11 Geocore Services Inc. 1 3 327
12 Cox-Beswick Irrigation Service, Inc. 136 382
13 Daryl Cox & Sons, Inc. 74 340
14 Geo Cox & Sons, Inc. 74 276
15 Craig Haldeman Well Drilling & Pump Service 55 739
16 Peterson Irrigation, Inc. 47 3,499
17 Harold Strader Drilling Company 23 380
18 Strader Drilling Co., Inc. 10 4,132
19 Sargent Drilling 9 168
20 Central Kansas Drilling 7 881
21 Clarke Well And Equipment, Inc. 6 4,014
22 Rosencrantz-Bemis Enterprises, Inc. 5 11,621
23 Layne-Christensen Co. 4 1,076
24 Backhus Drilling 4 1,560
25 Michael Peterson Irrigation, Inc. 4 844
26 O.s. Fent Hydraulic Drilling Company 3 440
27 Brant E. Rader Drilling Co. 3 262
28 Daniel H. Hoobler Drilling Co. 2 375
29 Woofter Pump & Well, Inc. 1 1,939
30 Zinn Water Well Drlg. 1 842
31 Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, Inc. 1 1,862
32 Pestinger Pump & Water Well Drlg., Inc. 1 1,799
33 Otis Bearden, Wayne Bearden 1 253
34 Ron Williams Drilling Co., Inc. 1 102

Ranked by wells drilled in Clay County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full KGS record. A ★ marks a featured sponsor — sponsors must appear in the county record to be listed, and the ranking below them is never reordered.

Who drills the most wells in Clay County?

Flint Hills Drlg #914 has drilled the most Clay County wells in the recent record — 70 since 2016, 70 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Clay County?

34 companies in the KGS record have drilled wells in Clay County; 16 of them have drilled somewhere in Kansas since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Clay County?

The median drilled depth in Clay County is 82 ft, based on 1,182 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Clay County wells page.

Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on the Clay County wells page.

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